Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd & Katy Perry Lead VMA Nominations

Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd & Katy Perry Lead VMA Nominations

Genre : Pop

Type: News

Author : Super Admin

Date : Wed, 26 Jul 2017

MTV has announced the nominees for this year's Video Music Awards, aka the VMAs, and surprise, surprise, Kendrick leads the pack with eight nominations. The Weeknd and Katy Perry are up for five awards, while Bruno Mars is up for four Moonmen; Ed Sheeran could max out with three. The VMAs will air live from the Forum in Los Angeles, California on August 27th at 8pm ET/PT.

Lamar finds himself up for the two biggest awards of the night — Video of the Year and Artist of the Year — where he'll be battling it out against Bruno Mars and The Weeknd. Katy Perry finds herself up for mostly technical awards, including Best Direction and Best Visual Effects for "Chained to the Rhythm" [ft. Skip Marley], as well as Best Art Direction for "Bon Appetit" [ft. Migos]. She is also nominated for Best Pop Video, also for "Chained to the Rhythm", and as part of Calvin Harris' Best Collaboration nominee, "Feels".

The VMAs are also debuting the category for "Best Fight Against the System", a likely extension of their 2011 to 2015 category "Best Video With A Social Message". For a company recently exposed for removing articles that were even slightly critical of big name acts, it seems that MTV is really taking it to the man this year.